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Re:Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to... by michaelt on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:05AM (#8052548)
I always thought those incredibly awkward product names were chosen at random.

Does this mean there are actual humans coming up with these things?

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Re:Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to... by dijit on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:17AM (#8052591)
oh, definitely, remember the "Anti-Crisis Girl" software[0] (screenshots leaked in Snowdens Revalations), an obvious nod to Svetlana Loboda's song[1] of the same name from Eurovision.

The people crafting these things are people too, they go about daily life the same as we do, albeit in the firm belief they're doing it for the good of the people.

[0] - http://leaksource.info/2014/02/19/anticrisis-girl-nsa-gchq-s...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-HL-EfUbI

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Re:Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to... by proofofconcept on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:22AM (#8052605)
I find that if I think of military/intelligence project names as being in part a form of marketing for which I am not the target demographic, and then imagine the sorts of people who are in that demographic, they make a whole lot more sense.
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